So I'm a terrible person and I want to name a variable in my mathy-python3 code s′ (that's a prime symbol).
I was under the impression Unicode literals work as identifiers in Python 3, which is why ...

A common problem for me - and it's not really a problem, but somehow I again and again ask myself, what is the normal way to handle this - is that there is a method and within this method a couple of ...

Is there any reason the PHP language could not be updated in a future version to make the $ prefix on variable names optional? Reasons that would break existing code?
I'm thinking it would still be ...

Following my other question, is there a general rule of thumb, when we should pass a setting-like value, that controls class' behavior (for example displayed texts) as as class' constant or variable, ...

Suppose I'm writing a program in C in which several parameters are asked at the beginning of the execution to the user and then remain costant until the end. Now, I need to pass these parameters to ...

Many people use the term Snake Case to describe variables or other symbols with_the_form_of_underscores.
In the past week, I've launched several broad searches. I can't find anything about the origin ...

I was looking at this thread on Stack Overflow and thinking about the functional programming I've been learning, and how immutability is so key there, and it occured to me that maybe some language has ...

I take a good deal of criticism from other programmers due to my use of full proper casing for all my variables. For example, your typical programmer will use employeeCount for a variable name, but I ...

I grew up programming C++ and Java where everything was safe and beautiful. Compilers made sure to keep me in check if I ever strayed. Of course, everyone did a little Perl in college, but I didn't ...

I am talking about normal PC applications, memory should be sufficient.
They declare global or member variables.
In each function/method, they use the same global/member variables.
At the beginning ...

I'm classically trained psychologist, not a programmer, so sometimes the more advanced aspects of programming escape me, in particular regarding program efficiency and/or certain best practices, in ...